Acumatica single wholesale distribution solution manage the entire quote to cash business processes enabling distributors of any size to quickly respond to changes in customer demands relating to complex inventories and fluctuations in the supply chain.
The streamlining of sales ordering, pricing, shipping, sourcing and billing accurately and in real-time equip companies to beat the competition.
Benefits
Improve customer satisfaction while minimizing cost
Distribution processes are real-time visible to supply chain ensuring that available inventory, goods in transit, reorder quantities and inventory costs are timeously responded to.
Reduce Order times
Multiple warehouses are effectively managed by defining rules regarding returns, credit limits, drop shipments which eliminate delays in the sales order business processes.
Know where your business is
Automation of the purchasing process ensure steady supply of materials leading to optimization of inventory and costs.
Inventory costs depends on the valuation methods used and is accurately tracked during inventory holding and good sold. Freight cost allocations is done automatically or manually during the sales, shipment or invoices process.
Warehouse management include location specific inventory quantities, allocations and costs. Central warehouse management provide redistribution to other warehouses of inventory on receipt.
Each inventory item can have a different valuation method which is either standard cost, moving average, FIFO and item-specific.
Pre-defined Inventory replenishment algorithms automatically generate purchase orders once stock levels are reached. Vendors are selected based on best price and delivery time required. Drop shipments are automatically generated from Sales Orders.
Release of purchase orders are managed with pre-set approval process considering order types, vendor information, order amount and other specific information.
Receipts are tracked for partially or completely filled purchase orders or multiple purchase orders. Multiple receipts can be consolidated to single or multiple invoices. Pricing differences during invoice matching updates the variances during posting to the general ledger. All documents in the ordering, receipting, return and updating are linked for drill down purposes.
Customised workflow eliminates skipping of procedures during the picking, packing, PO Receipting, transferring and physical count of inventory.
Third party EDI software works with Warehouse management to electronically communicate the contents of a shipment using 856 Advance Ship Notice identification.
Mistakes are eliminated during the scanning of pick and packing from the printed pick list.
Scanners replace the above procedure which streamline the procedures. Audible and visual indicators provide immediate feedback during mistakes to ensure that the correct items are picked packed and distributed.
Unnecessary steps are eliminated with the automated order processing which configure the order status, status changes, actions and notification with alerts automatically triggered.
Specific order types can be configured to allow for inventory allocation rules, workflow scenarios resulting in documents generated in accounts receivable in one click.
Complex customer and vendor pricing policies can be setup to allow for quantity and volume discounts as percentage or amount. Multi discount rules and sequences offer best discount combination to customer. Price overrides is established by warehouse, units of measure and quantity.
Setup up a catalogue from which a user can select specific items reduce time and eliminate paperwork during the automated requisition process. The supply chain process covers the order collection, supplier bidding, sending and approving quote, issue purchase orders and receiving goods.
Quotes can be created based on catalogue prices or cost-plus algorithms. The sales activities are completed once the sales and purchase orders are created and fulfilled.
Automated approval maps ensure that the right people are authorising and being alert when needed.
Vendor bidding process is streamlined with emailing requests and filing responses. Single or multiple vendors for specific items can be awarded the business.
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